Working Positively with Personality Disorder in Secure Settings: A Practitioner's PerspectiveISBN: 978-0-470-68380-4
Hardcover
288 pages
November 2010
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Working Positively with Personality Disorder in Secure
Settings provides a positive, compassionate and evidence-based
guide to working with patients with personality disorders.
- Unique in both its coverage and in its positive and evidence-based approach to working with patients with personality disorders
- Written with a practical focus by experienced practitioners in the field
- Offers a broad approach, with contributions from forensic and clinical psychologists, nurses, and therapists
- Covers therapy and therapeutic relationships, and issues of supervision, workforce development, treatment evaluation, team dynamics and managing boundaries
- Includes a strong patient focus and a number of personal accounts from patients who have received therapy themselves